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Help Sd card & internal storage not recognized = no recovery or backup restore :(

1967ls2

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Apr 29, 2010
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I was running skyraider 4.2 and everything was perfect. My brother in law convinced me to try nils gingersense. I made a nand first then flashed it. Everything worked fine except it nils gingersense ran slow and kind of choppy on my phone. I decided to go back to skyraider. I made another nand of nils gingersense first. I booted into recovery ran the nand and once it finished I immediately tried restoring my previous skyraider 4.3 nand which appeared to be successful. Once that finished I used the option to reboot in recovery. It started to reboot, showed my splash screen then just went to a black screen buzzed five times followed by the blinking green led. It did that every time I rebooted no matter what I tried. Finally I tried flashing the stock image and figured stock was better than a brick. This time different splash screen same result. I did some searching and found that if you plugged your phone in to the charger when the splash screen came on it would actually boot on. I tried this and was successful in getting the phone to turn on. Now the phone is back to stock and working but my SD card will not recognize on the phone (pulled it out and it works perfectly on my wife phone) and I also noticed that the 8 gb's of internal storage is also unrecognized by the phone. I am also unable to get into recovery. It shows a picture of a phone with like two green arrows making a circle and just sits there.

Any advice would be appreciated. I would like to be able to flash back to my previous skyraider nand but I would settle for a working SD card and internal memory. Thank you for any help in advance.
 
First, let's try and get the SD recognized. Copy everything off the card to a pc, and format it to fat32, and see if the phone can see it.

The circle with the green arrows sounds like what you would see when the phone is doing a stock update.

if you get the SD card recognized, try getting rom manager from the market and have it flash clockwork recovery (flash it a bunch of times)
 
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I have used the same stock image to unroot multiple incredibles I had to send back to Verizon for replacement. I kept it on my SD card in case I needed to use it again. I named it the "bp..." whatever it is actually supposed to be named and went into hboot by turning off the phone and holding down volume and hitting the power button. I probably did this about ten times hoping one of the times would work. How do I format the SD card to fat32? Do I have to plug it into a computer and do it there correct?
Can I use rommanager if my phone is now stock and uprooted? I no longer have superuser icon in my app drawer after flashing the stock image. Thank-you guys for all your help.
 
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I have used the same stock image to unroot multiple incredibles I had to send back to Verizon for replacement. I kept it on my SD card in case I needed to use it again. I named it the "bp..." whatever it is actually supposed to be named and went into hboot by turning off the phone and holding down volume and hitting the power button. I probably did this about ten times hoping one of the times would work. How do I format the SD card to fat32? Do I have to plug it into a computer and do it there correct?
Can I use rommanager if my phone is now stock and uprooted? I no longer have superuser icon in my app drawer after flashing the stock image. Thank-you guys for all your help.

Well if you are unrooted and without Superuser then evidently you were successfuly in loading the PB31IMG in hboot. My fear was that you inadvertantly may have loaded that zip in recovery instead which can be problematic and also can cause the green arrows you were talking about. So I remain a little stumped about that part.

At any rate, I'm not sure that the flash of the stock image went smoothly in your case. I'd move the files off your SD card (to PC desktop or similar), then use the PC to format the card to FAT32 just to be sure. You can try to do this while the phone is in "disk drive" mode. Once it's recognized by the PC as a drive, right click on the drive that is the SD card and do a full format to FAT32. Then place the PB31IMG on the card, power off phone, go to hboot and it should be recognized. You should be prompted to press volume up to start the loading process. Don't interrupt it. Let us know how things go from there.
 
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